Everyday Killers, the new one from bright young British retro-soul hopes, Ephemerals, is out soon. The cut, lifted from current LP Chasin’ Ghosts, has been given a reggae remix roasting by Gentleman’s Dub Club. Imagine a late seventies bubbler like Bob Marley’s Could You Be Loved in a moody minor key with Ephemerals highly capable (not to mention ‘surprisingly compatible with a reggae beat’)
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EPHEMERALS: Everyday Killers (GENTLEMAN’S DUB CLUB mix) (2016)
EPHEMERALS: Howl (Brighton Sessions version) (2015) Free download
What’s this? Howl? Have bright young soul-hopefuls and most-likely-tos Ephemerals gone all Ginsberg? Stream-of-consciousness spoken wordy-gubbins over Miles-ish beat-free trumpets and Rhodes-piano business? It certainly seems so, for such is the closer to current LP Chasin’ Ghosts – now offered as a free download by the band who are currently in the middle of a free giveaway
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EPHEMERALS: You’ll Never See Me Cry (2015)
Hot on the heels of the sampler for Ephemerals’ forthcoming second LP Chasin’ Ghosts comes lead single You’ll Never See Me Cry which manages to marry piano-led, retro soul sounds with the melancholia of a certain type of indie music (this latter being something fully played up to by whoever decides on the band’s release artwork) with, as far as I can make out, every chance of
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EPHEMERALS: Chasin’ Ghosts LP Sampler (2015)
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Rising UK soul outfit Ephemerals belie their name once more with an album sampler that indicates new material all set to capitalise on their already impressive success including support from the likes of Craig Charles, Gilles Peterson and Groove Armada plus a playlisting on Radio 1Xtra. If you’re not already familiar with this band
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EPHEMERALS: Live @ Queen of Hoxton 27 May (2015)
Here’s another post in what has turned into ‘heads-up about one-off soul and hip-hop gigs in London town’-week at MB Towers. This time it’s Jalapeno Records‘ rising soul stars Ephemerals a.k.a. the UK’s answer to Charles Bradley and Lee Fields, who pay a fleeting one-stop visit (but are sure to leave a lasting impression) to Queen of Hoxton in East Lahndahn. If you’re in the vicinity
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EPHEMERALS: Life Is Good (2015)
“Life is good,” croons Ephemerals singer Wolf Valbrun over the intro to the smokey soul of Ephemerals’ new single. Er – actually Wolf – there has been some debate about standards of living recently – sorry what’s that – “We’re getting less equal”? Yes, I think that’s more the consensus among anyone who’s not an oligarch, a non-dom or one of their cronies – which is to say most
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EPHEMERALS: Alive in Paris (2015) Free download
This is a taste of what happened when Ephemerals ended up Alive in Paris last autumn and did a live set for Les Nuits Zebrees. Typically of a funk-soul kind of stripe, it seems the band were transformed by the ‘City of Love’ into a 1970s instrumental fusion-era type Miles Davis outfit, at least on first track The Oligarch which becomes a nearly eight minute epic including a lengthy bit of
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EPHEMERALS: You Made Us Change (2014)
Forthcoming single You Made Us Change from Franglo-American band Ephemerals sees them continue their mission to deceive indie rock fans into buying soul with the sort of cover artwork sported on Foals’ releases. As with much of soul the lyrics are ‘down’ (trouble with the missus again) so in fact, there’s plenty for bed-wetting indie miserablists to identify with. Then again, the
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EPHEMERALS: ‘The magnificent seven questions’ interview (2014) + Free download ‘Things (part 1 & 2)’
Fast rising seven-(or nine – depending on how you count it) piece funk-soul outfit and Jalapeno-signings, Ephemerals, have the likes of Charles Bradley and Lee Fields in their sights with their debut (yet, highly accomplished) first album Nothing Is Easy just out. Not that anyone should be surprised that their shit is so together since the personnel number some guy called Jimi
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EPHEMERALS: ‘Things Part 1’ video (2014) + Album release update
There’s nothing fleeting about Ephemerals‘ timeless brand of old school soul here exemplified on the video for Things Part 1. Singer Wolf Valbrun wanders the streets of St Paul’s, Bristol, pondering what the missus has been saying about starting a family and then notices a million reasons written in chalk on the pavement about why you wouldn’t want to start one: a morality-free society
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